This is the geographical location for morna music.
What is Cape Verde?
100
This is a pop music style from South Africa as demonstrated by the Mahotella Queens.
What is mbaqanga music?
100
This is the iconic juju artist from Nigeria noted in the text and listening example.
Who is King Sunny Ade?
100
This is the talking drum from Nigeria used in juju music.
What is the dun dun?
100
This is a 21-string spiked harp played in West Africa by praise singers and is considered by many to be an ancestral form of the modern banjo.
What is the kora?
200
This folk fusion family group sang the theme song to a British television show, Harry's Game.
What is Clannad?
200
This is the founder of South Africa's first recording company, responsible for Solomon Linda's hit, Mbube in 1939.
Who is Eric Gallo?
200
This is the flamenco fusion band featured in Chapter 6 who demonstrates the "folk fusion" theme of the chapter.
Who are the Gipsy Kings?
200
This is an eclectic musical ensemble from Eastern Europe, is part of Jewish culture, and often features violin or clarinet as a lead instrument.
What is a klezmer band?
200
This is defining feature of Congolese pop music.
What is Sebene, or electric guitars playing repetitive background patterns in the style of mbira music.
300
This "half step" dance originated in Bohemia, a part of modern day Czech Republic.
What is the polka?
300
This is the modern rap music for the post apartheid movement in South Africa.
What is Kwaito?
300
This is a South Afican pop singer who sang mbaqanga music as well as jazz, who was also a political activist for civil rights against imperialism.
Who is Miriam Makeba?
300
This is a dramatic style of singing with guitar accompaniment and dance from southern Spain.
What is flamenco music?
300
This is a Nigerian style of pop music that is similar to highlife but with more influences from improvisational Jazz.
What is Afro-beat?
400
The Euro Pop band ABBA won this prestigious competition in 1974.
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?
400
This is the most iconic mbube/isicathamiya music group who attained global status as a result of a collaboration with pop artist Paul Simon.
Who is Ladysmith Black Mambazo?
400
This is Congolese pop music demonstrating influences from American R & B and Afro-Cuban music.
What is soukous?
400
This is the cultural source of mbube music as practiced by diamond mine laborers in South early decades of the 20 c.
What are nightsong competitions?
400
This is an European influence in the creation of morna music.
What is fado?
500
This is Portugal's most famous export - a soulful, lamenting ballad song tradition.
What is fado?
500
This is popular music from Ghana/West Africa originally designed to British taste in the early decades of the 20th c., but later infusing more indigenous African elements in the era of independence.
What is highlife?
500
These are traditional West African praise singers and oral historians who sometimes make intercultural collaborations with pop musicians.
Who is the griot?
500
This is Portugal's most famous fado singer?
Who is Amalia Rodrigues?
500
This is a multi instrumentalist who innovated Nigerian Afrobeat.